Host Barnesville gets clean sweep at Shamrock Relays

Published: May 14, 2017 7:00 AM

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BARNESVILLE -- Host Barnesville swept both the girls' and boys' standings at the WesBanco Shamrock Relays run Saturday at Barnesville High School.

The Lady 'Rocks rolled up 79 points to edge past second place Buckeye Trail with 74 points. St. Clairsville was third with 70 points followed by Caldwell (64), Union Local (63), Shenandoah (56), River (44), Monroe Central (41), Harrison Central (25), Buckeye Local (22) and East Richland Christian with 12 points.

Leading the way for Barnesville with wins were freshman Riley Helmick in the 3200-meter run (13:37.33) and sophomore Harlie Sttewart in the 100-meter hurdles (:18.41). Stewart also placed sixth in the 300-meter hurdles (:58.60).

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Pacing the Lady Warriors of Buckeye Trail were Sydney Lowry with wins in the 100-meter dash (:13.32) and the 200-meter dash (:28.21), while the 4x100-meter relay team (Alauna Butler, Lowry, Lindsay Gray, Arielle Rankin) turned in a winning time of :52.89 and the 4x200-meter relay squad (Butler, Lowry, Gray,, Karrington Pontious) also won in 1:51. 41.

In relay races, the Lady Warrior 4x100-meter shuttle hurdle relay team (Madison Wehr, McKenzie Wells, Meredith Johnson, Lilith Bixler) was third in 1:30.63), the 4x400-meter team (Butler, Gray, Cori Seifert, Pontious) was third in 4:40.12 and the 4x800-meter relay (Jessie Howald, Johnson, Samantha Flood, Seifert) was sixth in 13:22.80.

Leading the Caldwell Lady Redskins was Lindsey Furr with a win in the 800-meter run (2:35.12), Taylor Ramsey with a first in the shot put (32-00) and the 4x800-meter relay team (Lauren Fry, Chloe McAuley, Danni Goman, Furr) with a winning time of 10:45.55. Ramsey was also second in the discus (94-06).

In the boys' standings it was the host Barnesville Shamrocks with 115 points followed by St. Clairsville (96), Harrison Central (73), Shenandoah (72), Union Local (67), Buckeye Trail (56), River (32), Caldwell (31), Buckeye Local (11), Barnesville 'B' (2 and East Richland Christian with two points.

Nick Miller paced the Shenandoah Zeps with a win in the discus with a throw of 136-10 with Tanner Brown close behind with a heave of 132-08. Brown was also second in the shot put (40-08) and the 4x100-meter relay (Ethan Wiley, Jeremy Hall, James Fogle, Miller) finished second in :47.43.

Pacing the Jets of Union Local with wins were Luke Menges (100-meter dash, :11.88) and the (200-meter dash, :23.66) and Aaron Prout (400-meter dash, :51.73) and he was also second in the 200-meter dash (:24.17).

In relay races, the Jets' 4x200-meter team (Jamie Kelich, Russell, Prout, Menges) was second in 1:35.81, the 4x400-meter team (Kelich, Matt Bateman, Stuart White, Prout) was third in 3:51.38, the 4x100-meter relay (Gage Harris, Emiliano Peralta, Kovacs, Logan Ricer) was sixth in :51.02 and the 4x800-meter team (Luke Snyder, Ricer, Justin Hamilton, Bateman) was sixth in 9:35.

Claiming wins for the Buckeye Trail Warriors were Chase Stillion in the pole vault (12-06) with Hunter Sayre close behind in second (11-06). Also turninig in a winning time for the Warriors was the 4x800-meter relay (Trey Dougherty, Owen Stratton, Kaleb LePage, Gerrad Williams) in 9:30.